15-letter words containing n, o, t, i, c, e
- concertmistress — the first violinist in an orchestra
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
- conductiometric — conductometric
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
- confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
- confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
- confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constantine vii — known as Porphyrogenitus. 905–59 ad, Byzantine emperor (913–59) and scholar: his writings are an important source for Byzantine history
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
- contact printer — an apparatus used for making contact prints, having a frame for holding printing paper and negatives together and a light source for making an exposure.
- container class — (programming) A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
- contention slot — (networking) In a communication system where only one node at a time may transmit successfully on a shared channel, the contention slot or contention period is the time a node must wait before it can be sure that no other node's transmission has collided with its transmission. If node A starts to transmit at time t0 and then another node starts to transmit just before it recieves A's transmission at time t0 + T, then the transmissions will collide but node A will not detect the collision until time t0 + 2T. The contention slot, 2T, for nodes seperated by the maximum propagation delay thus determines how much data the node must be prepared to re-transmit in the event of a collision.
- contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
- contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
- contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
- contingency tax — any new tax that would be necessary in case of a shortfall in revenues.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- contrariousness — The state or quality of being contrarious.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
- controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.